Christen peter andersen



UNITED STATES CHRISTEN PETER ANDERSEN,

PATENT OFFICE;-

OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK.

DETERGENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 421,223, dated February 11, 1890.

Application filed September 6, 1889. serial No. 823,192. (No specimens.) Patented in Denmark February 10,1885, No. 1,871;

in Sweden April 26, 18861110. 689; in Germany June 22, 1836,1T0- 36,048; in France June 2Z,1886,N0.176,982; in England June 29,1886, No. 8,528; in Austria-Hungary February 6,1888, No, 65,483, and in Norway June 16,1888, No. 207.

T0 at whom it may concern: a

Be it known that I, OnRIsTEN PETER AN- DERsEN, a subject of the King of Denmark, residing at Copenhagen, in the Province of Zealand and Kingdom of Denmark, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Detergent Dye Compounds, (which said improvements have been patented by me in the followin g-na1ned countries, to wit: in Donmark, Patent No. 1,871, dated February 10, 1885; in Norway, Patent No. 207, dated June 16, 1888; in Sweden, Patent No. 689, dated April 26, 1886; in Germany, Patent No. 86,0i3, dated June 22, 1886; in Austria-Hungary, Patent No. 65,483, dated February 6, 1888; in England, Patent No. 8,528, dated June 29, 1886, and in France, Patent No. 17 6,982, dated J uno 22, 1886;) and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact de scription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to solid soap compounds or compositions; and it consists in the peculiar detergent compound or com position hereinafter described and claimed, which possesses the peculiarity that it cleanses and dyes the fabrics subjected to its use at the same time and by the same operation,or, in other words, is a combined cleansing and dyeing compound possessing peculiar qualities and adapted for general household use. a

This composition consists of the following ingredients, in about the proportions stated, viz: pure white soap, (preferably so callcd Marseilles soap or castile-=soap,) one hundred parts; water, a suitable quantityto dissolve the same 3 quillaia-bark, twelve and onehalf parts; haematin, forty parts, and bicarbonate of pot-ash, two parts, the several proportions above given being by weight, To these ingredients are (in some cases, as here inafter specified) added the following: aniline, (of suitable color,) ten parts, and bitar trate of potash, (cream of tartar,) two parts, also by weight.

To prepare this compound, I proceed as follows: I first prepare a, strong decoction of zensis) by boiling twelve and one-half parts of the bark in a suitable quantity of Water, strain the decoction, and then dissolve therein (by boiling over a slow fire) one hundred parts of pure white soap, which is preferably first out up into small pieces or thin shavings to cause it to dissolve readily. When the soap has all been dissolved, I add forty parts of haematin in crystals, stir the composition well, and then add slowly, while stirring, two parts of bicarbonate of potash. After all these ingredients have become thoroughly dissolved and mixed by diligent stirring the vessel containing the compound is removed p uillaia bark (Quill aia sapondria or Mast from the fire, when the contents may be poured into suitable molds and left to harden, after which the hardened composition may be cut up into cakes of suitable size and shape (like soap) and is then ready for use.

The substance hzematin, which forms one of the ingredients of my composition, is a commercial product obtained by mixing haematoxylin derived from l'ogwood with ammonia or some other strong alkali and oxygenating the mixture in the open air,

This composition is particularly adapted to the cleaning and dyeing or restoring of fab-- rics of dark colors, (such as black, or deep shades of blue, brown, or green.) Where the composition. is to be used for cleansing and restoring fabrics or articles of the lighter shades, the proportion of haematin is reduced or omitted altogether, and in its place I use ten parts of aniline of the particular color which it is desired to restore.

In using aniline I also dispense with the bicarbonate of potash, which is used with the hzematin, and substitute two parts of vbitartrateof-potash orgream respects the manner of mi cooling, and otherwise treating theln'iixture is the same, the proportion of hzematin being simply Varied according to the shades which it is desired to restore or produce,

To use this compound, a suitable quantity is dissolved in water and applied to the article or fabric which is to be cleansed or ro- In other stored by brushing or rubbing it into the fab quillaia-bark with soap, hzematin, and biric with a brush or cloth. A few brushings carbonate of potaslnin about the proportions or rubhings will, in a majority of cases, be .set forth;

found sufficient to thoroughly cleanse and In testimony that I claim the foregoing" as 15 5 brighten up the fabric, and at the same time my own I have hereunto affixed my signature restore it to its original color. in presence of two Witnesses.

Havin thus described my invention I claim 7 T r and desiFe to secure by Letters Patent of the CHRISTEL PE FER ANDERSEN' United States- Witnesses: 10 The herein-described detergent dye com- P. R. MATHIAssEN,

pound, composed by mixing a decoction of F. ANDERSEN. 

